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Effective Public Speaking Courses: Concentrate on Clarity
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These words are from an article in which the author is trying way too hard to impress the reader. Believe it or not, all of these words were pulled from the first 8 sentences of the article! Doing this in writing is bad enough. Your reader will be constantly tripped up by the unnecessarily complicated words. But if you do this in a speech you will completely lose your audience after sentence #2 containing "multifaceted surface and endodermis of a community."
I am an avid reader and I have a very large sight vocabulary. I enjoy unusual words and always look up words I don't know. But I seldom use any of these words in my average conversation. My goal in conversation is to be clear. Being clear is never more important than when you are trying to get your point across to an audience. Most of us rely heavily on our visual skills for understanding. When you listen to a speaker you have to keep the words in your head until you have an opportunity to put them together in a sentence that makes sense. I can't imagine that anyone would still be trying after hearing a paragraph containing the sentences above.
You might think that no one would use words like this in a speech. Oh, that it were so! Many speakers think that if they are speaking to business leaders or college professors that they need lots of this type of rhetoric. It's not true. Your audience is there because they want or need information about a particular topic. The simpler you make your message, the better it will be understood and the happier your audience will be. It's especially important when you are explaining a complicated concept that you do so in the clearest language possible. In fact, the more complex the topic the simpler your words need to be for your speech to be effective. That way the brain can concentrate completely on understanding the concept - not your vocabulary.
It's very difficult to keep an audience's attention longer than 10 minutes without doing some things to break up your speech. That's assuming that your audience is interested in what you have to say and that you don't confuse them.
When you use big words the listener's brain is forced to stop and think "Huh, what does that mean? Why did she say that in such a confusing way?" By the time the brain finishes dealing with its confusion the speaker has moved on, words have been completely missed and the direction of the speech is more confusing than ever. If you hit the audience with big words over and over and the brain continues to stumble it will probably just quit trying.
How do you avoid unclear words or awkward phrases? Write out your speech, word for word. Go through it with a critical eye. Do you use 10 words to make a point when you can do it in 6? Is there a better word to use here? How can I rewrite this sentence to make it clearer? If you want to present an effective speech, it's all about clarity, clarity, clarity. That's what will impress your audience, not big words.
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